Chuck Ross

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Chuck Ross is the managing director of TVWeek.com. He's been involved in the TV business ever since he sold cable TV subscriptions in Santa Monica, Calif., door-to-door in the mid-to-late 1970s. He's had regular gigs reporting and/or editing about TV and advertising for Cablevision magazine,The Hollywood Reporter, the San Francisco Chronicle, Inside Media and Advertising Age. He first joined the predecessor to TVWeek, Electronic Media, in 2000.

USA Network to Market ‘Modern Family’ Like It’s an Original Program — Rips Page From ‘Psych’ Playbook to Promote Expensive Acquisition

By Jeanine PoggiAdvertising Age USA Network is calling all Mofys — its nickname for rabid "Modern Family" fans it’s banking will tune in when reruns of the sitcom premiere in the fall. Alexandra Shapiro, exec VP-marketing and digital at USA,…

Who Will Run Al Jazeera America? Here’s a Look at the Shortlist — and Why Some Don’t Want the Job

Al Jazeera America is looking for someone to run the new U.S. cable news operation, and a number of veteran TV news pros happen to be available. As it turns out, Al Jazeera has reached out to a number of…

Hacker Group Strikes Again — and This Time It Targets a Site That Usually Issues Its Own Fake News

Just a day after reports surfaced that a hacker group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army had hacked E! Online, the group struck again, this time hitting the Twitter feed of the parody news organization The Onion. The Onion had…

‘The Rawest and Most Realistic of All Reality Shows’ Moves to Spike TV

Spike TV announced that it is the new television home for a long-running series that the channel defines as “the rawest and most realistic of all reality shows." The show is “Cops,” which moves to Spike from Fox in September…

Video: Helen Mirren, Dressed as the Queen, Emerges From Theater to Yell at Drummers Creating a Ruckus Outside

An agitated Dame Helen Mirren — dressed as the Queen — surfaced on a London street to try to get a bunch of drummers to pipe down after they disrupted her performance, the U.K.’s The Telegraph reports. Mirren told the…

Newsman and Actor, Known for ‘Scarface,’ ‘RoboCop,’ ‘Rocky III,’ Dead at 78

A pioneering TV news anchor who became an actor on TV and in films, including appearances in “Scarface,” the “RoboCop” movies and “Rocky III,” has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Mario Machado was 78. Machado, who often played journalists…

Fox Gets a Bump From NASCAR Rain Delay

Fox’s Sunday night ratings got a lift from Mother Nature, as the rain-delayed NASCAR race in Talladega, Ala., ran into prime time and delivered the network’s best numbers of the night, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that Fox won…